6 Days Double Gorilla Tracking and Lake Bunyonyi Trip

Tour Highlights

Boat Ride

Community walk

Equator

Gorilla trekking

Tour Details

Destinations:

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Lake Bunyonyi

Duration:

6 days

Day 1 ROAD TRIP TO BWINDI IMPNETRABLE FOREST.

DAY ONE, after your early breakfast meet and great with your guide, start drive to south western Uganda. First stop will be at the equator for photos and the famous water experiment to prove that you are standing in the middle of the earth. Lunch break will be in Mbarara town and after you will continue with your journey to Bwindi forest, dinner and overnight loge in the forest.

DAY 2 GORILLA TRACKING DAY.

DAY TWO, after breakfast you will drive for a few minutes to the park offices for registration and briefing, here you will be divided into groups each consisting of 8 people only and this is the limited number allowed for each gorilla family per day. Gorilla tracking is a once in a life time experience getting closer to these primates and looking them in the eyes is the best moment ever, the walk through this thick forest is just beautiful with lots of birds, lots of monkeys and different tree species, gorilla tracking takes between 2 to 8 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas as they feed on a given day. You will carry a lunch box and drinking water, depending on the time you come back we can have a community walk or visit the pigmy village. Dinner and overnight lodge in the forest.

DAY 3: SECOND GORILLA TRACKING

After breakfast you will drive for a few minutes to the park offices for registration and briefing, here you will be divided into groups each consisting of 8 people only and this is the limited number allowed for each gorilla family per day. Gorilla tracking is a once in a life time experience getting closer to these primates and looking them in the eyes is the best moment ever, the walk through this thick forest is just beautiful with lots of birds, lots of monkeys and different tree species, gorilla tracking takes between 2 to 8 hours depending on the movement of the gorillas as they feed on a given day. You will carry a lunch box and drinking water, depending on the time you come back we can have a community walk or visit the pigmy village. Dinner and overnight lodge in the forest. .

DAY FOUR: DRIVE TO LAKE BUNYONYI

Breakfast at leisure, after lunch we shall start the drive to lake Bunyonyi. Check in at your hotel, dinner and overnight at hotel.

DAY FIVE: BOAT RIDE ON LAKE BUNYONYI AND COMMUNITY WALK.

After breakfast you will take a a commuinty walk with a brief hike to a hotel where you can have the best view of Bunyonyi lake which has about 29 islands and most of them having tourist lodges on them but the famous one being the punishement island this comes with an interesting story which the local guide will share with you, lunch back at the hotel and after a boat ride going around a number of the islands. Dinner and overnight at the hotel.

DAY SIX: DRIVE BACK TO ENTEBBE AIRPORT OR KAMPALA

After breakfast we shall start the drive back to Entebbe airport or Kampala city.

About Us

MJ Safaris Uganda is an inbound and outbound Safari Agency based in Uganda with extensive experience in arranging both long and short, individual or group memorable safaris to the unspoiled Ugandan wilderness and beyond.